hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Things are always better in the morning.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

Consider the impact of your personal care choices on our health, water supply and our wider environment.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

We kind of deny the stages of life.

[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

Boast quietly, with decorum.

I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.